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I used to have it chronically, and as I aged it happens far less frequently, but usually when it does, it's an all night thing where it happens over and over again, unless I take a break and stay up for a while. A few things that is different about mine than what I hear as common effects, is it never felt like someone is sitting on me. I've also never seen "demons" in the room, and that's not a joke. A common experience with sleep paralysis is seeing "demons". I have seen someone in my room only a few times. The one I remember is someone just walking in, and I remember feeling pissed off that someone would just walk in without knocking or something first, then I realized I am laying down on my bed and stuck, and when this person looked at me, their face looked like static from an old television, which scared the living heck out of me. My eyes were clearly open, because I could look around my room. The sensation I always have, which I never hear about, is an air sound starts by my ears, and it feels like I'm zooming forward, and if I fight it, the air noise and zooming forward becomes more intense. I also hallucinate and see impossible, indescribable things. It usually results in so much fear that I just stay up for a large portion of the night. It's not like a nightmare, but more like a reality that you're not supposed to see, and kind of destroys your ego or sense of self. One thing I've learned is just to not fight it and relax instead, and try to let it pass. I avoid caffeine past 4pm and odd sleep schedules.
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The pain poo poo still happens to me though, if I get shot in a dream or stabbed or whatnot, I feel this really dull and distant version of that pain. It's so loving weird. Best I could guess is that I'm sleeping in a weird position and not waking up so my brain decides to translate that discomfort and pain into a narrative in my dream.
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Jan 21, 2022 03:50
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It's a lot of fun
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Mister Speaker posted:What the gently caress is this poo poo about? It hasn't happened to me in years, but today I got it twice. It was mild both times, I was able to snap from it in a few seconds, but the wincing and inability to escape whatever your nightmare mind is currently on is really disquieting, needless to say. Yes, 3-4 times a week, get some good coping skills because its awful. Awful enough you'd probably want to be a goatse reenactor that does regular gigs instead.
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Jan 21, 2022 05:11
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it's not that bad you just need to become very powerful in the dream realm. You can do this if you buy my book
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Jan 21, 2022 05:16
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Anyone ever have their leg just violently twitch themselves awake? It usually happens to me when I’m dreaming I’m falling from a great height (those dreams happen more than I’d like to). It’s like my body is telling itself to wake up right the gently caress now because I never see the end result of my fall. Lucid dreaming, maybe?
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Jan 21, 2022 05:33
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You Are A Elf posted:Anyone ever have their leg just violently twitch themselves awake? It usually happens to me when I’m dreaming I’m falling from a great height (those dreams happen more than I’d like to). this is called a hypnogogic jerk and it is a muscle spasm occurring after your body has started to go to sleep but before it has finished, this is also what causes us to fee like we are falling rifght before falling asleep fully soemtimes
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Jan 21, 2022 05:35
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Sid Vicious posted:this is called a hypnogogic jerk and it is a muscle spasm occurring after your body has started to go to sleep but before it has finished, this is also what causes us to fee like we are falling rifght before falling asleep fully soemtimes  I’ll be a son of a gun. Did not know this had an explanation and name. Thanks!
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Jan 21, 2022 05:39
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I have a roommate who, at least once, perhaps three times a week, decides that its okay to come out to the kitchen at about 4:30 AM, rather than staying in their room, to use their speakerphone to do automated calls like paying bills, confirming appointments, etc. They also use that time to facetime family, often getting so excited that they're like laugh-shouting the call while the other person is laugh-shouting back. I use earplugs and normally don't wake up until about 8 AM or a little before, but on the days where I'm hit with excessive cackling before dawn, I get to spend the next few hours having a short dream, maybe 5-15 minutes, waking up, realizing it was a dream and going back to bed over and over again, non-stop. They're all really vivid but about the most extremely mundane poo poo. Ten minutes of picking out fruit at the grocery, wake up. Five minutes arguing with friends in the car about what album to play, wake up. Ten minutes bitching with a co-worker about some other co-worker no-call no-showing again, wake up. For hours. And yes, it has been discussed on more than one occasion but it doesn't appear that it will be stopping. I guess I'd rather have that than wake up to demons casting spells into my b-hole or whatever and being unable to do anything about it though.
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Jan 21, 2022 05:42
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kill your roommate, in minecradt lol
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Chief McHeath posted:I have a roommate who, at least once, perhaps three times a week, decides that its okay to come out to the kitchen at about 4:30 AM, rather than staying in their room, to use their speakerphone to do automated calls like paying bills, confirming appointments, etc. They also use that time to facetime family, often getting so excited that they're like laugh-shouting the call while the other person is laugh-shouting back. I use earplugs and normally don't wake up until about 8 AM or a little before, but on the days where I'm hit with excessive cackling before dawn, I get to spend the next few hours having a short dream, maybe 5-15 minutes, waking up, realizing it was a dream and going back to bed over and over again, non-stop. They're all really vivid but about the most extremely mundane poo poo. Ten minutes of picking out fruit at the grocery, wake up. Five minutes arguing with friends in the car about what album to play, wake up. Ten minutes bitching with a co-worker about some other co-worker no-call no-showing again, wake up. For hours. That's basically psychological torture ngl, especially if it happens consistently week to week. People who don't respect other people's sleep hygiene when they're keeping normal hours are straight up shitheads, no one takes that poo poo seriously but if someone has been loving your sleep up for a year, it can have really bad health consequences, both mental and physical.
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Last time somebody posted a thread about sleep paralysis somebody said it wasn’t real and everybody in the thread who said they’d had it was lying for attention. Maybe not the very last time, maybe it was one of the times before that. It’s happened to me twice, both times I was sleeping in hotels.
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It kind of spooked me out the first time it happened because it was new to me. I knew what it was already, though. See, my dad would tell this story when I was a kid about how he was 'attacked by demons' one night while in bed. Said he suddenly couldn't move and heard weird air rushing noises, couldn't scream, felt like something was pushing down on his chest. Me, being curious like I was, started looking into what that could actually be and found stories of sleep paralysis or the "night hag" as some people call it. I didn't believe in spooks and ghosts so I wanted to find out what it really is. I've had it a handful of times since then but now it's just annoying. I'm just glad it hasn't happened to me anytime where it would have been dangerous or deadly like while driving super tired (don't do that, kids).
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Jan 21, 2022 06:12
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I used to get it all the time back when I was drinking a shitload of liquor and sleeping weird hours in a really uncomfortable bed. I think it's related to sleep quality.
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Jan 21, 2022 06:12
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Matryoshka SexDoll posted:I used to get it all the time back when I was drinking a shitload of liquor and sleeping weird hours in a really uncomfortable bed. I think it's related to sleep quality. Yeah, I haven't had it happen to me once since I quit drinking a bottle of bourbon every single day. I still have horrible sleep quality, though.
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Jan 21, 2022 06:13
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Is it sleep paralysis if I wake up and I feel like I can't move for hours, like the entire day? But also, it's more metaphorical and about living the same life in a rut for years?
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QUID PRO BONO posted:Is it sleep paralysis if I wake up and I feel like I can't move for hours, like the entire day? But also, it's more metaphorical and about living the same life in a rut for years? thats depression sorry bud
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Matryoshka SexDoll posted:I think it's related to sleep quality. Sleep is slow to come to me--and I sleep very shallowly--on my back. That's also the really only time I wake up remembering dreams or any of this weird poo poo happens.
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Next time you are in sleep paralysis, just go with it. It can lead to some good lucid dreaming.Catastrophe posted:It kind of spooked me out the first time it happened because it was new to me. I knew what it was already, though. See, my dad would tell this story when I was a kid about how he was 'attacked by demons' one night while in bed. Said he suddenly couldn't move and heard weird air rushing noises, couldn't scream... The air rushing sound. Every single time. ramenpower fucked around with this message at 06:54 on Jan 21, 2022 |
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ramenpower posted:The air rushing sound. Every single time. Is it like the blood vessels in your ears while your heart is goin nuts? edit: actually my doctor says it's demons actual edit: Sometimes, when almost asleep, I wake up startled because suddenly I hear my own breath in a different, louder way. I think that's also demons. QUID PRO BONO fucked around with this message at 07:17 on Jan 21, 2022 |
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last night i had a dream my cat had a facebook account and he was shitposting on my old roommate's cat's wall. just pages and pages of posts like "Hey, Jimmy, EAT poo poo!" followed by a chain of posts that just said "gently caress you!!" over and over again. I scrolled through and wanted to ask why he did this but cats cant talk. i woke up disappointed
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Whats the lighting conditions of your room your sleeping in? I found I had more waking dreams and sleep paralysis when I was sleeping in a room where there was low light but not totally dark conditions. I.e. neighbours light was bathing my room in a soft twilight. Havent had anywhere near as many experiences before or since.
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I self-induced sleep paralysis one summer because I wanted to see the demon. It worked. Coincidentally, I am mentally ill
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Used to get it pretty regularly, especially if something about my sleep rythm changed. Like, if I took a 1h midday nap or after work nap, I'd get it in at night. Here are the GABA top 5 tips to deal with sleep paralysis. - Never, ever open your eyes. You will see really weird and scary poo poo sometimes. It's not worth the stress. - chill out and wait, your brain will renenable motor function shortly. There is nothing you can do but wait. - I you can still wiggle your toes in that state, do it. It distracts you and I think it speeds up the waking process. - Don't immediately go back to sleep after because it will very likely happen again. Stand up, walk around do something else for a while before you try again. - Never listen to the demons. They make a lot of sense and will try to convince you but it's all bullshit. Where would you even get that much ammonium nitrate without a licensed farm? Or the gun.
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Get high and watch this after midnight https://www.amazon.com/Nightmare-Maxwell-Schneller/dp/B00YXBY1G6
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Some of my earliest memories are of sleep paralysis. I used to get it so frequently as a kid that I was convinced my family was in real danger from the "demon" or "goblin" or whatever it was that frequented my psyche. As I aged, I still had sleep paralysis just as frequently, but it was less about paranormal poo poo and more about terror of being paralyzed while semi conscious. Over time, I gradually tried leaning into it, and by the time I was early 20s, I'd learned to almost enjoy the experience. That's when it more or less completely stopped.
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Good Sphere posted:I used to have it chronically, and as I aged it happens far less frequently, but usually when it does, it's an all night thing where it happens over and over again, unless I take a break and stay up for a while. This is all the same for me. I also never really see poo poo but I get wild auditory hallucinations, using involving very loud bangs or someone in another room shouting (I live alone) I eventually got quite good at staying calm as it happened a lot, now it happens maybe once every few years.
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I don't think this has ever happened to me, thankfully. I do believe it's real though and I feel for those who suffer from it.
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I think I've only had sleep paralysis once and I figured out what it was quick and stopped freaking out and fell back to sleep or something. What I've experienced multiple times is exploding head syndrome. Where you are about to fall asleep and your brain makes up a police siren or bomb explosion just to gently caress with you. Only happens when I've been awake for long stretches which makes it all the more fun. Anyone else get that?
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Good Sphere posted:I used to have it chronically, and as I aged it happens far less frequently, but usually when it does, it's an all night thing where it happens over and over again, unless I take a break and stay up for a while. Same, I used to have it pretty frequently when I was younger and it thankfully occurs much less frequently now that I'm an old, decrepit man. I think this is fairly common for those that experience it.
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I used to have hypnogogic (waking up) hallucinations as opposed to what we are talking about, which is hypnompompic (falling asleep). Basically after my first two sleep cycles I would wake up and thing that something evil was in my room, like a cloaked figure with a dagger (my chair with pants on it) was the most common. And even if I would like consciously say 'bollig, you're maknig this up' I would still get the poo poo scared out of me as I passed it to go pee and drink a cup of water. I colud feel the adrenaline pump through me as I walked past my chair. Or sometimes I would wake up and think all the people I had hung out with during the day had fallen asleep in the bed next to me. Or sometimes my dreams would flow into my new reality, like I would be awake but the visual input into my consciousness was the world I was dreaming in which would slowly morph into ~*reality*~. But anyway, weed really exacerbated it. And I'm essentially off that these days oh well. I had also been taking B vitamins to have crazy dreams (this is a pro tip if you want to have vivid dreams and piss iridescent yellow then take B vitamins), so I went off those. I was still getting them 3/4 of the nights until I started taking Magnesium, which seems to have done the trick. Haven't had one of those in a very long time, thank goodness. Although it meant I got to pee and then drink some water which I think meant I was a bit more refreshed.
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ohhhhh look at me i know two different words ohhhhhh big man on campus
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Sid Vicious posted:ohhhhh look at me i know two different words ohhhhhh big man on campus he's got it backwards lmao
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i went to school past grade ten oooooooo
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Sleep paralysis owns in a generalized dread kind of way
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Personally I see sleep paralysis and false awakenings as proof there is no god and that we are truly alone.
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Man all these people itt lying about a made up condition lol
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Colonel Cancer posted:Sleep paralysis owns in a generalized dread kind of way I actually liked it a few times, true. It happened so much that I sort of pushed the boundaries to see what would happen. I'd just prefer it not happen, though.
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I've never had sleep paralysis, but it sounds kind of like what my first two seizures were like -- abstract "nothing" thoughts swirling around in my head, inability to talk, etc.
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Milo and POTUS posted:he's got it backwards lmao Ah poo poo
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